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CVE-2020-25652

Published: 3 November 2020

A flaw was found in the spice-vdagentd daemon, where it did not properly handle client connections that can be established via the UNIX domain socket in `/run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagent-sock`. Any unprivileged local guest user could use this flaw to prevent legitimate agents from connecting to the spice-vdagentd daemon, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This flaw affects spice-vdagent versions 0.20 and prior.

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
spice-vdagent
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic
Released (0.17.0-1ubuntu2.2)
focal
Released (0.19.0-2ubuntu0.2)
groovy
Released (0.20.0-1ubuntu0.1)
hirsute
Released (0.20.0-1ubuntu0.1)
impish
Released (0.20.0-1ubuntu0.1)
jammy
Released (0.20.0-1ubuntu0.1)
kinetic
Released (0.20.0-1ubuntu0.1)
lunar
Released (0.20.0-1ubuntu0.1)
mantic
Released (0.20.0-1ubuntu0.1)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Needed

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H